Harold's dreadfull experience

George turned pale

"He's not infectious is he" he gasped. "No," Mary reassured him" two weeks in the freezer has taken care of that. Here, take him a hot water bottle and a nice cup of tea, but be careful, we don't want him to come down with snapped wire syndrome ".

SNAPPED WIRE SYNDROME!!!!!! So THAT'S what Grandpa Lonely has. All medics ( ie Doris the wise woman and Grandma Jean with her old copy of Diseases, Real and Imaginary, Of Miniature Folk) have been baffled for weeks.